The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Queenstown in the lifeboat service of the En-.
glish Government. $3.50
LIZ is said tina. Colonel Cody's share of the
profits of the American Exposition in London
consisted Of ETC, 600 and position in society"
JOHN L. SULLIVAN has been presented with
an umbrellas worth 81, 100. He Is the only man
in the world able to take care Of so valuable an
article of this kind.
GOLDEN trout are found in but ono place in
! the world--that is in the brooks of Mount Whit
ney, up near the banks Of everlasting snow.
They have a golden stripe down each side, and
are the most beautiful fishes that swim.
The Elder Dumas was asked to give some
thing toward the funeral expenses of baiiff
who had died in poverty. How much do you
WANT" he asked. Twenty francs" WHAT
Only twenty francs to bury a baiiffl There,
there. Take forty and bury two!"
NJ. PAvLosKY in his recollections OF Tureuen-
EFF, relates that once at Victor Hugos house
some one remarked that their hosts name
should be given to that street mot a street
alone" cried another. should be named for
Victor Hugo. but all Paris should be named
after him. Hugo, who was present, heard these
words, and replied, That will come IL time
THERE is no longer any sword-making ia
dustry in Damascus What was once known as
the sword trade is now occupied with convert
ing the blades of old saws and pieces of ordinary
iron int daggers and cheap swords, and rifles of
SONng0n ana birmingham make are 0Ougnt
finished and decorated in Orien tai style, and put
upon the market as weapons of Arabian or
Damascus origin.
SENATOR EvARTs has lived>in Windsor, VT.
for thirty years Everybody in the neiehbor-
hood of that quiet place knows him, and in his
slouch hat and ancient coat he does not awaken
the antagonism from the farmers which a more
elegant attire might provoke. On the whole. he
Is popular at Windsor. While he is there Sena-
tor Evarts finds his pleasure his library, his
guests his forty horses and the hills and valleys
of his thousand-acre farm.
PROBABLY the oldest person in the world who
is taking the Chautauqua literary course is Mrs.
B. Needham, of Bristol, VI. She is now ninety
two years old aud expects receive her diploma
certifying TO the compilation of the four years
course in 1889. She seems to feel the weight of
her many years but lightly. and Is in letter
health tn an most people at sixty. She lives all
alone, and has for many years done her own
work, including her own dress making.
JENNIE GIBSON, handsome girl of sixteen,
living with her parents in Arkwrieht, N. Y. has
never seen the world by daylight, though
enabled by lamplght to sew and read just
clear any body. Up to the age of four five
years she was believed to be totally blird. The
paren is noticed that after the lamp was lighted
she gave evidence of seeing: and gradually this
power of sight grew upon her, until the little
one play ed with her dolls and toys by artificial
light as eagerly as other children by daylight
3 i TALL young man. far from stylish in APP
psarance, recently registered at Philadelphia
hotel and asked to be. called at half-past in
the morning. He proved to be John Dubois. of
Dubois, MIMI, whose uncle died not long ago
and left MIN q fortune of Sc, 900. 900. Young
Dubois is about twenty-six years of age, neither
smo kes nor drinks, is unmarried. retires early
and rises early. and has neither the habits nor
appearance of youthful millionaire whose
wealth is almost inexhaustible.
WHILE Plymouth Church's new-found clerical
pet, Rev. G. A. Berry. was preaching Sunday
smoke that did not come from the in
ferno and the smell of earthly flame startled the
Pastor Halliday left the pulpit
and went outside. On his return he said that
the smoke was caused by 8 newly made fire, ard
that there was no reason to feel at all disturbed
Mr. Berry resumed his sermon, saying that he
haG noticed the smoke and that it got into his
throat. I'VE will be all right il smoke does not
get into our brains and hearts" he said.
Miss ETHEL SPRAGUE, daughter of Mrs. Kate
Chase Sprague, who will begin her dra-
matte career, is handsome woman just
eighteen years of age She is above medium
height, of dark complexion. with hair of a dark
chestnut hue. She shas broad. intellectual
forehead, and brilliant hazel eyes Her nose
and mouth ara large, but well shaped Her
teeth are strikiugly handsome. Her figure IS
well rounded and Symmetrical She does not aim
to become star at once, but will take subor-
work her way up Strange as It may seem. her
great ambition is to play Lady Macbeth.
WAYFARERs on the old National road, of
which the termini Wheeling. w. Va. and
Vandalia, ILL.,, often marvel at the solidity of
the massive stone culverts, large arches and
bridge abutments This work was begun in
1882 and lasted nine years. and the man who SUI
pervsed it, Mai. w. G. Griffith, of Sullivan
county Indiana. still lives, at the age of ninety
years. Major Griffith has voted at seventeen
presidential elections. and cast his first vote for
James Monroe. He has always voted the Dem
ocratic ticket The Major is nearly ak feet tall.
erect as an Indian. and active boy of six
teen. His memory is wonderfully retentive.
and he can talk sntertainingiy on any subject
A PARTY Of tourists made journey through
some friedrich works recently and found ono of
the members of the firm tasting of bits Of blue
Jersey clay in the big yard in the rear OF the
works. This is the only sure way TO distin-
IN the manufacture OF ere brick he said. as as